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Away We Go

2009

Sam Mendes

John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Carmen Ejogo ...

6.2

5,461

Comedy. Drama A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Longtime couple Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) are going to have a baby. The pregnancy progresses smoothly, but six months in, the pair is put off and put out by the cavalierly delivered news from Burt's parents Jerry and Gloria (Jeff Daniels and Catherine O'Hara) that the eccentric elder Farlanders ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Away We Go' is a film for nice people to see. Nice people also go to 'Terminator Salvation,' but it doesn’t make them any nicer (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"There is real intimacy and affection between [the characters] which is wonderful until, before too long, it becomes as insufferable as the songs by Alexi Murdoch"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Mendes deftly follows the twists in the tartly funny and achingly tender script (...) [Rudolph and Krasinski] are absolutely extraordinary (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"An oddly sour, unappealing road-trip scenario (...) Meandering and monotonous"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] has an easy, no-particular-place-to-go looseness that doesn't bear too close a scrutiny, but has a certain likability (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"As the film progresses, the straight, almost cartoonish comedy of the first few encounters shifts into a subtler, more enriching study of parenthood"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A self-satisfied film about insecure people, a quirky and episodic comic drama that squanders its genuine assets and ends up not as special as it tries to be."	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Frustratingly uneven but eventually emotionally satisfying (...) The film remains resonant thanks to understated performances from stars John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph."	NEU

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